#wcwsthwas

[seaweedbraens]

we can walk straight through hell (with a smile) chapter 5 - part 2

title: we could walk straight through hell (with a smile)

summary: The titans have won the war, the child of the prophecy was killed, and what remains of the demigod alliance is hidden underground. Many believe that the great prophecy was false, and that another will be revealed in time, but the sudden introduction of a new face throws everything into question all over again.

[pjo+hoo (kinda), retains elements of canon]

percy/annabeth; piper/jason; hazel/frank

word count: 70k+

link: ao3 [part 2 only]

full fic masterpost

#pjo #percabeth #pjo fic #percy jackson #percy jackson fic #fanfic #pjo fanfic #vani's fic #my fic #wcwsthwas

[glove23]

we could walk straight through hell (with a smile) chapter 5, part 1: i have come by the highway home by @seaweedbraens

His mother. His father. The cabin. The sea. The screeing of seagulls, the heaviness in the air, the way seafoam would gather on his little feet as though trying to keep him there.

“I’m going to Bunker Three,” he says. “I’m going home.”

I read this for the first time and sobbed, so obviously I make a comic ✨✨ love this fic with my heart and soul

#WCWSTHWAS #we could walk straight through hell (with a smile) #seaweedbraens #percy Jackson #pjo #pjo fanart #fanart #digital art #glove23 does art

[thecasualauthor]

So I read a Percy Jackson au fanfic recently called "We can walk straight through hell (with a smile)," by the talented @seaweedbraens ! It was lovely and the recent update had a scene that was beautiful and tragic all at once.

I loved it with all my heart, and I have watercolors and I decided to paint it.

"And she’s looking at him, still looking at him, watching him, and he feels on fire with the intensity of her suddenly-clear, focused gaze. And there’s an army of monsters hacking away to get to them, the crackle of little fires from all over the silent city, and it’s just them."

Consider it a thank you for this wonderful story! :)

#percabeth #my first posted fanart #pjo fanart #percabeth fanart #percy and annabeth #wcwsthwas #we can walk straight through hell (with a smile) #seaweedbraens #I'm an amature #but it was fun

[seaweedbraens]

we can walk straight through hell (with a smile) chapter 5 - part 1

title: we could walk straight through hell (with a smile)

summary: The titans have won the war, the child of the prophecy was killed, and what remains of the demigod alliance is hidden underground. Many believe that the great prophecy was false, and that another will be revealed in time, but the sudden introduction of a new face throws everything into question all over again.

[pjo+hoo (kinda), retains elements of canon]

percy/annabeth; piper/jason; hazel/frank

word count: 65k+

link: ao3 [part 1 only]

full fic masterpost

#pjo #percabeth #fanfic #pjo fanfic #pjo fic #pjo fanfiction #percy jackson #percy jackson fanfiction #percabeth fanfiction #my fic #vani's fic #wcwsthwas

[seaweedbraens]

we're getting there y'all we're getting there

#moi #fic update #wcwsthwas

[seaweedbraens]

fic schedule!!!!

august/september 2023 - wcwsthwas ch 5 pt 2

december 2023 - wreck my plans ch 2

jan/feb 2024 - wcwsthwas ch 6 pt 1

august 18 2024 - wcwsthwas ch 6 pt 2 + 7 epilogue chapters

post august 18 2024 - IM FUCKING FREE (no but i wanna finish wreck my plans ch3 (the epilogue), the BIG percabeth soulmate au, the percabeth isekai au, percabeth siren au, percabeth secret demigods au (courtesy of @logan-white), percabeth royalty au, and then fics from other fandoms like genshin which i have SO many ideas for)

this is VERY TENTATIVE and takes into account the fact that im currently a grad student rn, so i kind of really write when i feel like it + when i get the time. for everyone waiting for wcwsthwas, thank you for being so patient and i will 100000000% understand if it's getting too tedious and you need a break for a while! BUT i just felt like i owed you guys some clarity for all the messiness abt this fic.

(here is a more detailed breakdown of why there's a delay with wcwsthwas)

tysm ily <333

#moi #fic updates #vani's fic schedule #wcwsthwas

[seaweedbraens]

we can walk straight through hell (with a smile) chapter 5 - part 3

title: we could walk straight through hell (with a smile)

summary: The titans have won the war, the child of the prophecy was killed, and what remains of the demigod alliance is hidden underground. Many believe that the great prophecy was false, and that another will be revealed in time, but the sudden introduction of a new face throws everything into question all over again.

[pjo+hoo (kinda), retains elements of canon]

percy/annabeth; piper/jason; hazel/frank

word count: 55k+

link: ao3 [part 3 only]

full fic masterpost

#pjo #pjato #percy jackson #percabeth #pjo fic #my fic #vani's fic #wcwsthwas chapter update #percabeth fic #ao3

[seaweedbraens]

okay so!! i plan to post chapter 5 part 2 of wcwsthwas on friday, october 13 at 8:00pm EST!!! chapter is clooose to 68k words and contains:

the percabeth that everyone's been begging for since chapter 1

the Silena Reveal

some good ol piper vengeance

&some juicy setup for the final two parts!!!

get your rereads in!

#my fic #fic updates: wcwsthwas #pjo #hoo #pjo fic

[seaweedbraens]

(replying to this here since i can’t reply to submissions the way i do normal asks)

very true!!! the hurt he feels is 100% natural and it only gets worse when he sees annabeth’s (supposed) love for luke. rachel is definitely a crutch here. she’s a breath of fresh air from the mess of his life, and so, intentional or not, he kind of gravitates to her.

(spoilers below)

YES ACHILLES CURSE and he’s fucking keeping it in the universe of this fic, since rick taking it away in canon is just a way to nerf him wrt the seven. well NOT HERE im going to make him s t r o n g w no regrets

#fic talk #fic talk: wcwsthwas

[seaweedbraens]

hi, its the anon that asked you not to kill our fave pasty ass white boy 🤗 you did NOT just put us through jason and piper both envisioning life after the war where they'd settle down and have KIDS bro KIDS?!?!?!? AND TO JUST RUIN MY DOMESTIC JASIPER HEART LIKE THAT 😭😭😭 im gonna take the major character death tag here with krios being killed by j like in canon 🤗🤗 and j's aura of death bcuz j is abt to kill someone 🤗🤗 but he's not dying 🤗🤗

oh u delulu i love it

(u might wanna stick around until the epilogue chapters though)

#wcwsthwas talk

[seaweedbraens]

wcwsthwas new chapter on march 21 I PROMISE

[seaweedbraens]

To all the show doubters: you CANNOT say the final episode wasn’t absolutely great. Very few major issues, and actually lived up to the books (mostly)!

i obviously have like 16 full length essays in my head but imma spare y’all that for now.

i speak as a show doubter here. i havent watched the show yet because i have a grad review in 2 weeks that i'm supposed to be working on and i simply dont have the TIME to binge an entire show without feeling a truckload of guilt afterwards.

nothing against you, or anyone who enjoys the show! but i accidentally saw a clip from the final episode that INFURIATED me.

it's luke's betrayal, and somehow....annabeth was there. i don't want to comment on anyone's acting because this is just one scene and i don't want to be too harsh. but my issue is that annabeth was there at all.

first off - if she was there, there is no WAYYYYYYYYY annabeth's first instinct would be to attack luke if she overheard him. this is her FAMILY, the one person she truly felt she knew and who she felt knew her. she'd be stunned, man. not defiant in the face of his betrayal. look at the books! she rushes to hold the sky for him, making that decision in the brief moment it causes him pain!

anyway:

annabeth being absent is the POINT. in the books, she doesnt see luke leave, she doesnt know/understand his reasoning, and ON TOP OF ALL THAT she has to wait for like a week for percy to wake up and tell her how things went down. during that week she has to come to terms with the fact that 1. luke's left her and the camp, 2. he attacked percy, 3. he's joined kronos, and 4. he didn't care about her enough to give her an explanation or even say goodbye.

i feel like this DIRECTLY leads into her attitude towards him in EVERY. OTHER. PJO. BOOK following the first one. she is desperate for answers, desperate to believe that there's still some good in him. she wants to hear it from him. she wants to SAVE him. she defends him from percy's judgement MULTIPLE TIMES, tells him percy didn't know him, but she did. she truly believes he's just lost his way. she doesn't understand how he's fallen because she wasn't there to see it. and when she finally does, it's STILL hard for her to process.

i feel like her being there just ruins a lot of that. or maybe i'm just being overly nitpicky. which...that's kinda my thing. wcwsthwas exists because i'm nitpicky.

i don't want to diminish anyone's experience if it's been a positive one, least of all yours because i really do appreciate your inputs! this is just me ranting here because that scene bugged me so much. maybe the rest of the show is great and i'll be eating my words soon enough. i guess we'll have to see!

i'm sorry if this is very harsh - i don't want to offend anyone! i'm ecstatic you like the show, and i don't want to shut anyone down. i know i come off as a rick riordan hater (which i kinda am), but i wouldnt be writing pjo fic if i didn't have a lot of love for the universe he's created. i want to hear all the opinions - the good and the bad. please feel free to share any thoughts in my askbox.

[seaweedbraens]

Saw a recent ask of yours about percabeth was sidelined during BoO and totally agree. I've read all of WCWSTHWAS and I think you did a better job than rick at giving the new AND old characters their time to shine. What's your opinion on the new and old characters and their "screentime" through the series?

VERY interesting question - and thank you for the compliments! personally, i am struggling in my own fic to give every character their Moment. i think jason and piper got theirs, and hazel, leo, and frank will get theirs next chapter. i feel like percabeth's getting all the attention overall ahahaha, but i can't stop myself. i JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH-

hoo is an interesting series. it's very hard to balance a story like that because the way rick did it, he introduced a new cast of characters while keeping the older fan faves (percy & annabeth) still VERY pivotal to the main plot. with this structure, he had the hard task of keeping the new characters fresh and interesting, while also having to make sure that he doesn't do a complete disservice to percy and annabeth, who are already well-known and incredibly loved within the fandom.

it's HARD. i am struggling with it right now, and i have a lot of respect for rick for accomplishing it (partially). i know i criticize rick a lot, but he hit a perfect balance with the first three books of hoo. tlh gave us good stuff from jason, leo, and piper with the PERFECT sprinkling of percy mentions and annabeth acting as a support. the son of neptune gave us all the percy content we were missing + 2 new characters with GREAT origin stories. the mark of athena gave us annabeth. and percabeth. need i say more?

the next two books are FUCKED. rick tried to give hazel her moment, but she is completely overshadowed by percabeth in tartarus. frank gets magicked hot and loses me entirely. leo went from being my favorite new character to my least favorite with the addition of calypso. idk what piper does, and jason is just a vehicle to show off the new favorite - nico. and then rick adds in the nico reveal, which, okay?? i personally was never THAT invested in nico, and his coming out (which is incredible for the lgbtqia+ community, not denying that) came out of left field, didn't align with what we saw of him in pjo, and his coming out itself was forced. literally. which left me feeling...super off about it. if he was gonna come out, it should have at least been his choice.

my point is: the house of hades has SEVEN POVs, a HUGE step up from the usual three, which is...a choice. percabeth (and to some extent hazel) gets the spotlight. the lost hero trio doesn't really get too much screentime other than leo meeting calypso, so why did we get ALL OF THEIR povs? and then...nico is thrust into the spotlight?? why???? we already have 7 characters to focus on. why did we need another? a mess.

and then, in the blood of olympus, we get...five povs. jason, leo, and piper, and...reyna and nico?? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. i did not give ONE FUCK about the journey back to camp with the athena parthenos, and even if it was necessary, why did we need BOTH reyna and nico's povs? at the MOST we just needed one. i HATED leo's new lovestruck ramblings. and the characters that we had grown up with, percy and annabeth, were shafted on a whole new level. i don't remember frank and hazel getting much time to shine either. it's offensive. it's genuinely offensive.

with those last two books, rick completely shatters the balance he spent the first three books doing VERY well. with the last two books, i lose complete sight of who the fuck to care about within the new cast of characters, and so the only ones i DID end up caring about were the ones i cared about all along: percy and annabeth! and what happens to them? they are completely wasted in the final book. after tartarus, we needed one of their povs to know that they were okay, and we got none of that. yeah, NO.

i know i went the fuck off on this and i didn't mean to, i swear! it just gets me so angry, because rick just...was not making good choices towards the latter half of the series. his choice to include percy and annabeth in an important role in the new series was to keep the old audience hooked while still attracting a new one, and he completely botched it. if he was going to make them lynchpin characters, he should have given them the respect they deserve in the final book. if he wasn't going to use them, he should have just left them in supporting roles, the way he did in toa. you can't get both, and i think hoo proves that.

in the end, none of the characters got a satisfying ending (imo), other than maybe nico (LOL), and the audience isn't fuckin happy. or maybe they are, and i'm just an old bitter grandma in her rocking chair screaming about things long forgotten.

(a very late disclaimer: this is all just my opinion. you can disagree with me, and that's cool!)

[seaweedbraens]

so remember how i said that solangelo should be just a little bit fucked up. yeah i read the sun and the star bc i got it as a gift from someone and they were so... bland??? sanitized?? like the version of them in my head is WAY different.

rick writes all his couples the same ive BEEN saying this!! now that im writing wcwsthwas i acknowledge that its super hard but this is an AUTHOR and im just a grad student hopped on caffeine. DO BETTER RIORDAN

i love your version of them waaaay better than rick's. if you ever choose to write them, you totally should!

[seaweedbraens]

wcwsthwas word count > war and peace word count

are u being fr 😭😭😭😭😭

[seaweedbraens]

wcwsthwas snippet that genuinely had me feeling bad this time (and possibly one of the only times i've felt anything writing this fic)